Summer Test Drive! (Calibrations edition!)

[thespaceopera]

THE SUMMER TEST DRIVE MEME
(Or Winter Test Drive for you Southern Hemisphere folks!)

Got someone you want to try out before you app? Well this is the post for it! Feel free to use anything that fits in the setting of Drift Fleet! Want to play bumper shuttles? Want to go wild in a med bay? Play around with the current plot? Have at it!

Threads from the Test-Drive may be made game "canon" but DO NOT count toward AC!

FOR NEW PLAYERS: You DO NOT NEED an invite to participate in the TEST DRIVE! If you decide to APP into the game, ONLY THEN will you need an invite from a current player!

SPECIAL NOTE!
Since June is a special month in which we'll be breaking from the usual plot to bring back the calibrations plot, the Test Drive prompts will come in two flavors!

OPTION A: Standard Test Drive
Go ahead and treat the test drive as you normally would, using past plots or fleet locations as your setting! Here's some helpful info for some ideas.

April/May's Star System

March's Star System

Game Details

SS Iskaulit

OPTION B: Build-a-Calibration
If you'd like, you can use the info given about the Calibrations plot to design your own calibration room for any characters you want! Got a character you want to explore their inner psyche but isn't in the game yet? Go ahead and try it out! It can be a fully fleshed out room, or simply just a small part of it you'd like to play with.

Alternatively for any characters that are in the game, you can use this as a chance to either iron out, brainstorm, or test run any components of your calibration before the actual plot starts! We don't recommend posting the entirety of your calibration in this meme (as you'll have nothing new to post come plot time), but this can be a good chance to test out any parts to make sure they work how you desire.

Test drives are posted SEASONALLY, so the next one will be in September!

Comments

[amazonfresh]

It only just happened.

[takingkarabusiness]

Yes, I believe you.

But this place can take people from different times. So what just happened for you happened a long time ago when I'm from.

[amazonfresh]

So this happens often here? Everything does seem... different from what I saw of the world.

[takingkarabusiness]

Almost as many times as there are people, unfortunately.

[amazonfresh]

So even if we were to get away, we wouldn't be in the same time we came from.

[Diana isn't stupid. She puts that together. And the fact isn't enough to convince her she shouldn't leave, but it is a treacherous kind of prison.]

[takingkarabusiness]

Yes, but we really can't get away.

[amazonfresh]

So you do not try?

[takingkarabusiness]

I've been here for a year and a half.

[amazonfresh]

And when in that year and a half did you stop trying?

[takingkarabusiness]

I didn't say I stopped. But there's something to be said about knowing when to wait for an opportunity to present itself.

[amazonfresh]

So you are waiting for an opening? You are stronger than I if what you say is true, so why bide your time.

[takingkarabusiness]

Who is there to fight? Our hosts don't show themselves.

[amazonfresh]

You have been here longer than I have. You would know.

Who is there to fight? Where do they hide themselves?

[takingkarabusiness]

We don't know much about them, including where they are. Usually they communicate with us via video.

[amazonfresh]

If they do not show themselves, then how do they stop you from leaving?

[takingkarabusiness]

Magic, maybe?

But more likely logistics. Most creatures don't survive out the airlock.

[amazonfresh]

An airlock?

[Sorry, Diana doesn't know about submarines, let alone space ships or the fact that there's no oxygen beyond earth's atmosphere.

She's well educated, but her education sadly stops around 300 B.C.

Magic, she does understand.]

If it is magic, then there must be someone who can fight it.

[takingkarabusiness]

...We're not on Earth. These ships are in space. The sky? There's no air outside of them.

[amazonfresh]

So what is there outside?

[takingkarabusiness]

Well, nothing... A vacuum.

[amazonfresh]

[This is not the expression of a woman who knows about space travel.

Literally anything about space travel.]

[takingkarabusiness]

Um.

Just know you can't breathe out there.

[amazonfresh]

You mean men cannot breathe out there.

[takingkarabusiness]

Women can't either.

[amazonfresh]

Mankind. Humanity?